organisation
Considerations on the party's organic activity when the general situation is historically unfavourable
Bordiga's 1965 essay on the activity of communist militants when class struggle is at a low-ebb.
1. The so-called question of the party's internal organisation has always been a subject in the positions of traditional Marxists and of the present Communist Left, born as an opposition to the errors of the Moscow International. Naturally, such a topic is not to be isolated in a watertight compartment, but is instead inseparable from the general framework of our positions.
Strategies and Tactics of the Class Struggle
September 17-18 1879 A Private Circulation Letter from Marx and Engels (First drafted by Engels) to Germany's Social-Democratic leadership -- Bebel, Liebknecht, Fritzsche, Geiser, Hasenclever, Bracke. This was in response to an August 1879 article written by Karl Hochberg, Eduard Bernstein, and Carl August Schramm, entitled "Retrospects on the Socialist Movement in Germany".
What is to Be done
What is to be Done
Werner Bonefeld
The 3rd World War: Message to the Anti-Globalization Movement
5,000 people have been killed in a murderous attack just a few days ago, clearly stemming from past events in the Middle East. Although the President of the United States correctly refers to this as "acts of war", he does not tell us that this war has been raging for many years, and is fueled by long standing American support of Israel, acting as its military proxy. The US is "no peace loving country," it is the world's largest salesmen of military armaments and has its hands in most of the wars waging around the globe.
The Ballot or The Bullet?
There are no fair elections in America, certainly when the questions of race and political power are evident. It's interesting therefore to look at the presidential election of the year 2000. Many things have not been widely reported, which shows that this electoral race has come so close to political violence, if not outright fascism.
Anarchist vs. Marxist-Leninist Thought on the Organization of Society
Historically, there have been three major forms of socialism -- Libertarian Socialism (Anarchism), Authoritarian Socialism (Marxist Communism), and Democratic Socialism (electoral social democracy). The non-Anarchist Left has echoed the bourgeoisie's portrayal of Anarchism as an ideology of chaos and lunacy. But Anarchism, and especially Anarchist-Communism, has nothing in common with this image.
Party and Working Class (1936)
Pannekoek hammers at the idea that party and class must be antagonistic, as the history of German and Russian parties had shown by 1936.
Rather, the working class must self-actuate and self-organize: "Practical action, that is, concrete class struggle, is a matter for the masses themselves, acting as a whole, within their natural groups, notably the work gangs, which constitute the units of effective combat."
General Remarks on the Question of Organisation (1938)
"There are many who think of the proletarian revolution in terms of the former revolutions of the middle class, as a series of consecutive phases: first, conquest of government and instalment of a new government, then expropriation of the capitalist class by law, and then a new organisation of the process of production. But such events could lead only to some kind of state capitalism. As the proletariat rises to dominance it develops simultaneously its own organisation and the forms of the new economic order."
16. The ABC of the Revolutionary Anarchist
Anarchism means man living free and working constructively. It means the destruction of everything that is directed against man's natural, healthy aspirations.
15. On Revolutionary Discipline
Some comrades have put the following question to me: How do I conceive revolutionary discipline? Let me answer that.
I take revolutionary discipline to mean the self-discipline of the individual, set in the context of a strictly prescribed collective activity equally incumbent upon all.
